TY  - JOUR
AU  - Sambeth, R.
AU  - Baumgärtner, A.
TI  - Autocatalytic polymerization generates persistent random walk of crawling cells
JO  - Physical review letters
VL  - 86
SN  - 0031-9007
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - PreJuSER-46842
SP  - 22
PY  - 2001
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - The autocatalytic polymerization kinetics of the cytoskeletal actin network provides the basic mechanism for a persistent random walk of a crawling cell. It is shown that network remodeling by branching processes near the cell membrane is essential for the bimodal spatial stability of the network which induces a spontaneous breaking of isotropic cell motion. Details of the phenomena are analyzed using a simple polymerization model studied by analytical and simulation methods.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000169013600055
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5196
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/46842
ER  -